Genesis 17:22

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Genesis 17:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

21 But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

22 When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

23 On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

24 So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

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Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

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After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

Genesis 35:11

And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Genesis 35:12

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Genesis 35:13

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

Genesis 35:14

So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.

Genesis 35:15

Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Exodus 20:22

Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Numbers 12:6

He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

Numbers 12:7

But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Deuteronomy 5:4

The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

Judges 6:21

Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

Judges 13:20

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”